Article: Recovered and Restored: 'Ramona,' Silent Movie by Chickasaw Filmmaker
By Angela Aleiss
March 27, 2014The recently restored 1928 version of Ramona will have its world premiere on March 29 in Los Angeles. Based on a weepy, once-popular novel by Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona tells the story of a mixed-race (Scottish and American Indian) girl who is raised by a Mexican family and suffers racial discrimination. The 1928 film version features internationally acclaimed Mexican actress Dolores Del Rio in the title role and non-Native actor Warner Baxter as her ill-fated Indian husband Alessandro.
The lead actors may not have been racially authentic, but the man in the director's chair was certainly well suited to the material: Edwin Carewe, a Chickasaw filmmaker who directed dozens of films in the silent era.
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/03/27/recovered-and-restored-ramona-silent-movie-chickasaw-filmmaker-154207Posted March 12, 2014, 2:55 PM PST
